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I was a reviewer a while ago for that thing called the "coop".
Every now and then I would get very strange ads being submitted related to ebay. I made several posts about it and they were always ignored.
Now I understand...

What??? After all these years on digitalpoint. They are going to disappear from the face of the earth. IT was from April 02 1999 and I was about to make a wikipedia article. I hope that he gets a very good lawyer. I dont want digitalpoint to disappear.

I think it's still an ongoing case. eBay filed an amended complaint in March. VERY interesting reading.

eBay alleges that from June 8-19 2007 Hogan stuffed roughly 650,000 cookies. That is just the period that they were watching the stuffing activity. They allege though that he had been engaged in cookie stuffing since 2004. That's got to be millions of cookies over that time period!

When an eBay employee asked Hogan about his ad network he said that it "works like evolution in nature" and that "while it's really (REALLY) neat and would like to show everyone just to show off...it's really not a good idea if I give it away". LOL hilarious. Modesty doesn't seem to hinder him in any way.

Just reading through the complaint it looks as though eBay has done their homework. They even created a "special gif" and placed it on the eBay homepage as a tool to track Hogan and Dunning's alleged cookie stuffing.
While Hogan has millions of dollars to throw around I don't think he will win this one. It will be interesting to see the fallout once the case is decided though.